Feeling Emotional? Your Dog Understands

A new study from researchers at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom suggests that dogs do a better job of recognizing when we’re happy or angry than previously thought.

While everyone knows we can teach Rover to play fetch or roll over, these findings show that dogs have an innate ability to understand how we feel, likely a result of thousands of years of symbiotic living.
Man’s Empathetic Friend?
In the study, published Wednesday in Biology Letters, the researchers showed 1